Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-11 Thread Peter Lewis
On Sunday 08 Jan 2012 18:27:21 Tom Gundersen wrote: > No particular group membership necessary. I'm not really sure exactly > what packages need to be installed (I just install all the kde > packages and hope for the best). > > This should "just work(TM)". If it does not there could be a > polkit/

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-08 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
>> As for my user groups: >> video,audio,optical,storage,games,lp,wheel,scanner,power >> >> As for kde packages, I have a very minimal kde install and it still works. >> kdebase is must of course. Try it with just that and the above settings. If >> it doesn't work, then take a look at `pacman -Sg k

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-08 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Sunday 08 January 2012 18:01:35 Jonathan Vasquez wrote: > On Jan 8, 2012 12:27 PM, "Tom Gundersen" wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Peter Lewis > > wrote: > > >> This is done via policykit. > > > > > > Would I need some optdepend installed or some daemon started to make > > this >

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-08 Thread Jonathan Vasquez
On Jan 8, 2012 12:27 PM, "Tom Gundersen" wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Peter Lewis wrote: > >> This is done via policykit. > > > > Would I need some optdepend installed or some daemon started to make this > > work? I notice that I have polkit-qt installed, but I don't think I've ever

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-08 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Peter Lewis wrote: >> This is done via policykit. > > Would I need some optdepend installed or some daemon started to make this > work? I notice that I have polkit-qt installed, but I don't think I've ever > done anything explicit with regard to policykit. I'm in th

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-08 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Sunday 08 January 2012 13:17:56 Peter Lewis wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the helpful response, Tom. > > [Re: KDE system settings] > > > > However, I also see "You are note allowed to save the configuration". > > > > That's odd. It works fine for me. You should see a key icon next to > > the A

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-08 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, Thanks for the helpful response, Tom. [Re: KDE system settings] > > However, I also see "You are note allowed to save the configuration". > > That's odd. It works fine for me. You should see a key icon next to > the Apply button, and when you click it you will be asked for the root > passwor

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-08 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Peter Lewis wrote: > Hmmm you're right. I'd always assumed that this was some user-specific KDE- > specific timezone variable, but it seems that system settings panel is > supposed to provide some functionality to change the system-wide timezone. Yeah, this is supp

Re: [arch-general] setting the time

2012-01-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 16:25:14 Peter Nikolic wrote: > I have just found one more that i cant find a way round , Just > went to correct the timezone from Europe/Gurnsey to the correct > Europe/London but it will not let me sac=ve the changes and does > not ask for root password or anything ..